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Pashayi languages

Pashayi
Native to Afghanistan
Ethnicity Pashayi people
Native speakers
400,000 (2000–2011)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
aee – Northeastern
glh – Northwestern
psi – Southeastern
psh – Southwestern
Glottolog pash1270
Linguasphere 59-AAA-a

Pashayi or Pashai (sometimes referred to colloquially in neighbouring languages as "Shari") is a group of languages spoken by the Pashai people in parts of Kapisa, Laghman, Nuristan, Kunar, and Nangarhar Provinces in Northeastern Afghanistan. It belongs to the Dardic branch of the Indo-Aryan languages. Most speakers are bilingual in Pashto with a literacy rate of about 25%, with the Pashayi languages having no written form prior to 2003. There are four mutually unintelligible varieties, with only about a 30% lexical similarity:

A grammar of the language was written as a doctoral dissertation in 2014.



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